IRS under fire for erasing records sought in court order

By Sarah Bedford

Published January 22, 2016 3:08pm ET

IRS under fire for erasing records sought in court order — JohnÂ Koskinen told a Senate committee that the IRS remains committed to fixing issues stemming from a 2013 report that the agency was unfairly targeting select Republican political organizations applying for 501(c)(3) and 501(c)(4) status. (AP Photo) | Andrew Harnik

Lawmakers blasted the Internal Revenue Service this week for deleting records that a federal judge had ordered the agency to produce.

First, Sens. Orrin Hatch and Ron Wyden demanded to know why a hard drive had been “sanitized” after a court ordered the IRS to hand over records from that computer.

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